About how to convert PDF tables to Excel
Bank statements, price lists and reports dey often come as PDFs, wey make their numbers hard to use again. This converter dey look for tables for every page with the lines and spacing of the text, then e go write each table wey e find for im own sheet inside Excel workbook, so document wey get five tables go give you five sheets. Cells go keep their rows and columns, and numbers dey write as text wey you fit convert or format for Excel. E dey work for PDFs wey get real text, like statements wey dem export from online banking. Scanned pages no get text to read, so use Scan to Word or Excel for those ones. Tables wey no get ruling lines, or wey get merged cells across plenty rows, hard to find; check the result and adjust where e need am. Table wey continue for two pages go show as two sheets, wey you fit paste together. If you only need the tables and you want CSV file instead, try Extract tables.
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PDF to Excel: questions wey people dey ask
Why each table dey show for separate sheet?
To keep one table for each sheet dey stop tables wey get different columns from mixing. You fit copy dem put for one sheet for Excel if you need am.
E dey work with scanned bank statements?
Not directly, because scan no get text to read. Use Scan to Word or Excel, wey dey run OCR first.
Why some numbers no dey add up for Excel?
Maybe dem store dem as text. Select the column and use Excel Convert to Number option.
Wetin be the difference with Extract tables?
Both dey find tables. PDF to Excel dey always give .xlsx workbook and e dey count as Office conversion; Extract tables fit also give CSV.